Amsterdam Russ
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Excellent! Will look out for it...
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Looking for a good clean copy of Sonji Clay - Deeper in my heart (American Music Maker). Postage is to the Netherlands. Please get in touch via PM. Thanks!
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Great 45 - just bought a copy a couple of days ago. Like the flip very much indeed - very much in line with the Dakar sound I'm familiar with through the music of the wonderful Orchestra Baobab. Big thumbs-up all round.
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Obvious stuff like Chuck Woods - Seven days, Solomon Burke - Cry to me, Dobie Gray... Not so much 'Northern' as 60s club classics, but it was a great surprise to be hearing this stuff on a Friday night bowling session on the outskirts of Amstelveen. Thought it probably a one-off, but they played similar stuff on another occasion, too. It's everywhere!
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In bowling alleys in the wilderness of the Netherlands that exists beyond Amsterdam...
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There was a study some years back into the changes that happen to the brains of would-be "Black Cab" drivers in London when they study 'the Knowledge'. I wonder if the ability to store and process vast amounts of geographical data - as in the case of licensed taxi drives - is in some way similar to the memory recall experienced some collectors relative to label and other data. Here are some snippets from a news report on the study: Source: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/12/111208125720.htm
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A scary thought. The one in the pic looked a real monster excepting for the reality of its actual size. The pic was taken flat to the subject, so doesn't really show just how amazingly thick set and armour plated it looked. Give it a three-foot wingspan and you'd need to be out there defending yourself with something that was mightily powerful - and lightning fast!
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Most sources I've come across suggest that it's because they have red legs - and so share a similarity with the trousers worn by French soldiers in times past. And they originated from the warmer climes of France and Italy, too. Nice concise overview of their introduction into the UK here... http://www.purdey.com/shooting-life/a-guide-to-game-birds/red-legged-partridge/
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What an absolute tragedy. It brings home to you just how fragile human existence is in reality. One day you're doing whatever it is that you do, and the next you're gone. I think the helplessness of it all makes matters worse. We have no control, no say, no power to prevent it, and often no warning. The shock and the void for family and friends must be immense. I can only offer condolences and add them to the collective emotional voice that is raised here for one who has made a mark on the lives of so many just by being themselves - a genuine human being. RIP Bob.
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Have to say I also really rate his other Pye cuts "You're wong there baby" and "I've laid some down in my time". Both absolutely storming tracks!
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The horns sound very southern to me - Memphis, Muscle Shoals, perhaps - rather than Chicago. In fact, the whole thing sounds very southern. Couldn't put a finger on it and say why exactly. It just does.
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Not much point. It's just a blank white label. Well, except for the sticker removal scuffs. Got four test presses off someone and he had to have gone and put stickers on every one saying what the track was. I think there was even a euro-sized circle with a capital A in it to show which were the A sides! Got two Little Richard's, a Five Du-Tones and a Jimmy Robins "Can't please you" - all with the same bloomin' stickers on. They came off all right, but at a cost to the labels underneath!
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I'm confused. Isn't radio with moving pictures know as telly?
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Yes, I read all the posts and was just contributing to the general discussion, not your post specifically
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I've got a white label test pressing of it.
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I've now added a lengthy sample of this possibly uncatalogued track to YouTube…. Sounds earlier than 1974, don't you think?
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These two were taken last year when we were on holiday in Greece. There's a small freshwater stream that flows into the sea at a certain point and it's home to a good many of these small turtles. The sea urchin is one I collected when out snorkelling one day. Will be back there very soon.
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You're referring to the actual ML disc?
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Starting bid $9.99. First bid $502. Second bid $511. Third bid $521. First bidder must have thought they were safe with their max bid, but bidder number two has blown them out of the water. Now bidder 3 - someone with just five feedback - has just come in with an even higher price. Looks like this one could be a fight to the financial death…
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Who hates "Buy it now"offers?
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Apparently Judy was refused entry into the UK when she arrived at Manchester! Info here courtesy of Malcolm Wyatt, the writer of the article... https://writewyattuk.wordpress.com
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